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tello14

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Registered: 2013-05-05

Posts: 3

Read only filesystem issues

Hello! I installed Archlinux and I got to the part where I am installing sound and video and other goodies like that. I just rebooted and logged in and it said this:

-- taylor: /home/taylor: change directory failed: No suh file or directory
Logging in with home = "/"

as soon as i saw that i though oh no thats my root! I cant do anything with that!
then out of curiosity i tried anyway. I typed:

sudo pacman -S alsa-utils

It said:

sudo: unable to mkdir /var/db/sudo/taylor: Read-only file system
(then it says that lecture from SA stuff)
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: Read-only file system

well, sadly, I know enough terminal to spot the problem, but, I cant fix it. Oh well, I guess I'll learn from you guys right now! thanks for the help.

ubunchu

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Registered: 2012-05-01

Posts: 181

Re: Read only filesystem issues

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39256
Check fstab for correct mount options for / , and also the bootloader (usually there should be "ro" at the end, though im not sure)
If there is no /home:

sudo mkdir /home/yourname
sudo chown yourusername /home/yourname

Good luck.

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tello14

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Registered: 2013-05-05

Posts: 3

Re: Read only filesystem issues

ok so i went in with my root and i typed:

sudo mkdir /home/taylor

it said:

mkdir: cannot create directory ' /home/taylor' : Read-only file system

Last edited by tello14 (2013-05-05 14:42:52)

tello14

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Registered: 2013-05-05

Posts: 3

Re: Read only filesystem issues

hmm... I'm getting this feeling I'm going to have to reinstall because its rather hard to write more filesystems in a read-only filesystem.

Arctus

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Registered: 2012-07-14

Posts: 99

Re: Read only filesystem issues

As mentioned before, post your fstab.

65kid

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 663

Re: Read only filesystem issues

have you actually tried ubunchu's suggestion to check your fstab? you are probably just missing your / entry in fstab.

WorMzy

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Re: Read only filesystem issues

Don't reinstall, 'mount -oremount,rw /' should remount your filesystem in read-write mode for the current session.

Last edited by WorMzy (2013-05-05 15:39:10)

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